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Two Milestones
Two milestones, which I admit are poles apart — Shakespeare’s Sonnets (all 154) and Aesop’s Fables.
Air Travel
Air travel in the future must address two issues, and it is very unclear how — how to protect passengers from infection while on board, and how to protect the receiving destination from potential infection by these same passengers. Even when this pandemic subsides, those two issues remain, given that future pandemics can’t be ruled out and it is indisputable that the airplane is the main method of spreading infection. The current mode of air travel is a recipe for disaster. It has to change fundamentally.
Anne Frank
Netflix has an interesting documentary about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. If you ever find yourself in Amsterdam, take the time to visit the annex where they hid.
Anne Frank’s Diary is one of the few books I’ve actually read twice. It’s one of those remarkable books where you can hear the voice of the writer behind the words.
TikTok
TikTok
Ban it in the United States. Definitely.
College Education
Send your kid to college and get back a snarky, left-wing lunatic with Marxist leanings.
Democrat Mayors in Big Cities
The criminal element, illegal aliens, Antifa, drug dealers, gang members, not to mention terrorist cells, must love Democrat mayors in big cities. What a constituency!
No Cops
This is what happens with no police. This is the future for New York City and other cities.
Real Police Reforms
There are internal units in police departments that review all cases of fatalities and any incidents involving inappropriate use of force by a policeman. I think this is where you could have real reforms that make a difference.
If it is a three-panel review committee, have two of the three people doing the review as ordinary citizens, not policemen. This would ensure there is no conflict of interest and the judgments were rational and fair, as opposed to the current system where the internal units with nothing but police personnel have in inbred tendency for the police to protect themselves — an obvious conflict of interest. Having two out of three members of that review committee being non-police would eliminate this obvious conflict of interest.
Also, the findings and final judgments of these internal committees have to be made public so there is transparency in their proceedings and adjudications. Right now, much of this is considered protected information and shielded from the public. That has to change. Otherwise, the public will continue to have no faith in these secretive internal reviews so subject to obvious conflict of interest.
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